UPSC CAPF GK Questions 2026

Muhammad Husayn Kashmiri, the finest calligrapher at Akbar's court, was given the title "Zarrin Kalam", meaning Golden Pen. Calligraphy was the most honoured art at the Mughal court, and Akbar ran a large imperial workshop where manuscripts were copied, painted and bound.

Kandukuri Viresalingam saw education for all, including girls, as the base of social reform. Viresalingam (1848–1919) was the leading social reformer of Andhra in the nineteenth century and is often called the father of the Telugu renaissance.

He led the no-tax campaign of the peasants of Bardoli taluka in Gujarat against an unjust rise in land revenue.

NISHTHA stands for National Initiative for School Heads' and Teachers' Holistic Advancement, a programme to train school teachers and heads.

Artificial Intelligence is the ability of a machine to perform tasks that normally need human intelligence, such as reasoning, learning and taking decisions.

The line comes from her famous Hindi poem Jhansi Ki Rani, which celebrates Rani Lakshmibai's fight in the Revolt of 1857.

A mature mammalian red blood cell has no nucleus, ribosomes or mitochondria, so it can neither make proteins nor divide.

The provisions on citizenship, elections and the provisional Parliament came into force on 26 November 1949, the day the Constitution was adopted.

Xeriscaping is a way of designing gardens and landscapes so that they need little or no irrigation. The word joins the Greek xeros, meaning dry, with landscaping.

Kabir's verses survive in three separate but overlapping traditions: the Bijak, the Kabir Granthavali and the Adi Granth Sahib. Kabir, a weaver of Varanasi who lived around the fifteenth century, spoke of a formless God and mocked empty ritual in both Hindu and Muslim practice.

Lysosomes are small membrane-bound sacs filled with digestive enzymes, which is why they are called the storehouse of digestive enzymes.

The National Water Academy is at Khadakwasla, near Pune in Maharashtra. The Academy is run by the Central Water Commission under the Ministry of Jal Shakti.

In a thunderstorm we see the lightning first and hear the thunder later, although both are produced at the same moment.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the founding father of Bangladesh, was named for the Gandhi Peace Prize 2020, awarded posthumously.

The Grand Order of the Chain of the Yellow Star is the highest civilian award of Suriname, a country on the north-east coast of South America.

This statement is false: Unani remains one of the systems under the Ministry of Ayush. AYUSH stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy, and Sowa-Rigpa was added to the family in 2010.

Multimedia means using several forms of media, such as text, graphics, audio, video, images and animation, together, often in a way the user can interact with.

The Dandi March came first in 1930, then the Gandhi-Irwin Pact and the Second Round Table Conference in 1931, and the Lahore Resolution for Pakistan in 1940.

Collagen is the main structural protein of cartilage, and it is a fibrous protein, not a globin. Globins are compact, folded proteins that hold a haem group and carry or store oxygen.

Article 395 repeals the Indian Independence Act, 1947 and the Government of India Act, 1935, together with the laws that amended or supplemented the 1935 Act.